Dave of Nazareth

I'd like to meet:

I’d love to hang out with the Rat Pack for a week or two...i.e...a few brunches, some dining out and then to the clubs, then perhaps off to Frank’s house for Babes...I mean Wow! I might also enjoy meeting Einstein, going to his house for dinner and conversation, and then later...off to the campus for Babes...I mean Wow!

I love meeting people and as I am a professional stage performer there is no short supply of people to meet and to date I have not met a human I didn’t like and very, very few I didn’t like enough to not call human.

Being the kind of person who likes people who have that reputation as a "classic" or "class act" throughout the past and present there are just too many I would love to see and spend some time with.

I am interested in good times with a bit of laid back calm combined with some wild and crazy with good entertainment evened out with good food and great friends...and yes, let’s face it...Babes.

And So, A Bit Of Everything Going On This Year... So Many Things... So Little Time... Sew Empty Pockets Shut... Sew Buttons On Your Ankles To Keep Your Socks Up... So, See Ya Round...

Music:

I love music but have a rather eclectic taste when it comes to simply listening to music and a little (but not much) leeway when it comes to dancing and club music. I think you will be able to tell by this list that I do not associate with rap and find it impolite for the most part and that classic sounds from the 50's through to about the late 80's is more my gig because I have nothing in common and can't relate to the music genres that are being produced today. I must admit to a gradual growing fondness for Ska simply because you can dance to it and it doesn't insult the senses and its, for the most part, fun. My pet peeve in music is a vocalist who sings everything like he or she has beeen constipated for way to long or has a major problem with substance abuse.

So lets face it, when it comes to music, if I'm not dancing I like music that is fairly square and has established itself through time and the generations as being what one would call "classic"...Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Bowie, Devo, James Brown, Jim Croce, Buddy Holly, Jimmy Buffet, The Clancy Brothers, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Ricky Nelson, Louis Prima, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Presidents of the United States, The Who, Roger Miller, Elvis, Zappa, The Cars, Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash, Leon Redbone, Louis Armstrong, Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, Donovan, Dion, Yes, Rush, and believe it or not even some Perry Como, I also like Tom Petty, Stray Cats, The Ramones, Hermans Hermits, James Taylor, The B-52's, Cyndi Lauper, and when I am absolutely at rest and need to wind down big time I like Tchaikovsky, Handel, Wagner, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Cole Porter, and Cohan, and some big band swing like Tommy Dorsey and such, I can listen and enjoy almost anything when it comes to music but I dont want to hear dance/club/rap music while I am sitting or driving or doing things other than dancing.

I would always prefer to hear music that is "fun" and has established itself over the years with the masses and after all is said and done (and it has been) I would rather laugh with or at The Archies or the Jackson 5 then suffer through another whiney, innarticulate, me generation, grunge/thrasher/Sid Viscious wannabee. Guess I just like Pop/Jazz type beats.

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Most of my repotoire consists of performers such as...Dino, Sinatra, Bobby Darrin, Paul Simon, Andy Williams, Nat King Cole, Ernie Ford, and the other "Ed Sullivan"-classic TV types...

Movies:

Basically every movie of classic distinction ever made except for the pure romanticals or noir.

Dr. Strangelove (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb), Forrest Gump, Citizen Kane, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Grapes of Wrath, Ben Hur, King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Great Dictator, The Kid, It's A Wonderful Life, Lord of The Rings, Pirates of The Caribbean, Fail Safe, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, Ace In The Hole, Sullivan’s Travels, Rooster Cogburn, True Grit, The Adventures Of Robin Hood, Flight Of The Phoenix (original), Destry Rides Again, The Boys From Brazil, Zulu, Seven Days In May, Almost all sci-fi pre-1990, Invasion of The Body Snatchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Forbidden Planet, Them, Lifeforce, War of The Worlds (original), The Day The Earth Stood Still, Things To Come, Fantastic Voyage, Five Million Years To Earth, The Martian Chronicles, Star Trek movies, Star Wars movies, Alien(s), Planet of The Apes movies except that one before last, Stargate, The Thing (original and remake),

Nearly all comedies from the 40's on to today having a soft spot for comedy, Hepburn and Tracy, Martin and Lewis and especially Matt Helm movies, Hope and Crosby, Cary Grant comedies, Danny Kaye movies, Abbott and Costello, The Marx Brothers, The Thin Man movies,

Movies dealing with war and the times right before and after like The Longest Day, The Best Years of Our Lives, Tora, Tora, Tora, Midway, Patton, In Harm's Way, Hell Is For Heroes, Battleground, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, Where Eagles Dare, Battle of The Bulge, The Dirty Dozen,

And the corny like Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and the other Mel Brooks, The Nutty Professor (original), Amazon Woman On The Moon, Capricorn One, Joe Versus The Volcano, The Groove Tube, Galaxy Quest, Sleeper, The Three Amigos, And Other Corny B Movies...

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20'000 Leagues Under The Sea, Jungle Book animated version or not and mostly all pre 90's Disney, most Clint Eastwood westerns, Elvis movies, Life of Brian and all Monty Python, and all Bruce Lee, Goldfinger, Casino Royale (original), and all James Bond movies, Indiana Jones movies,

and so many many more they are listed best by picking up a guide to all movies made and saying.....all the ones in here worth watching and some that weren't...and the ones that were worth watching I may watch one to ten times a year...I do like a good movie.

Television:

I find television enjoyable only if one never watches the main channels. I watch almost exclusively educational programs and old movies except for Letterman and Craig Furgeson for late night with perhaps some Twilight Zone to sleep on. Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, The History Channel, Turner Classic Movies, American Movie Classics (not so musch since they are showing commercials now), PBS for Nova, Nature and The Antiques Roadshow, HBO, and all the other premium movie channels...

Sometimes some vinatge Star Trek or newer Next Generation or even I Dream of Jeannie on TVLAND just for fun...

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...but I refuse to take anything on television seriously even and especially the so-called news for it is rabid with the idea of filling time just for the sake of the vast wasteland it can be made out to be.

I do watch American NFL Football with intense attention seeing how it is the perfect analogy to American life and spirit.

I think television can be senseless and be great fun and that doesn't seem to be too much of a waste of time as long as you never believe the news and as Bob Barker would say....remember to always have your pets spayed or nuetered.

Books:

Recently I Found A Partial List I Began Approximately Thiry Years Ago Of Some Of The Books On My Shelves That I Had Read And It Was Interesting Reading In Itself...

And Some Of The List Follows;

Cats Cradle, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Slapstick, The Sirens of Titan, Player Piano, Mother Night, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Deadeye Dick, The Door Into Summer, The Puppet Masters, Magic Inc., Waldo, Three, Farmer in The Sky, The Unpleasant Profession Of Jonathan Hoag, Friday, Farnhams Freehold, Tunnel In The Sky, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Green Hills Of Earth, Revolt In 2100, Padkayne Of Mars, Timeless Stories For Today And Tommorrow, S Is For Space, R Is For Rocket, I Sing The Body Electric, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Long After Midnight, The Halloween Tree, The Golden Apples Of The Sun, The Martian Cronicles, A Medicine For Melancholy, Childhoods End, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: Odyssey II, Rendezvous With Rama, The Lost Worlds Of 2001, The Sentinel, Imperial Earth, The Wind From The Sun, The Fountains Of Paradise, Tales Of Ten Worlds, Chimera, The Sot, Giles Goat Boy, The Gemini Contenders, The Matlock Papers, The Bourne Identity, Saving The Queen, Whos On First, Marco Polo-If You Can, Space, The Covenent, The Drifters, Shogun, Tai Pan, King Rat, Wolfbane, Firefox, Firefox Down, Prides Castle, The Golden Hawk, An Odor Of Sanctity, Floodtide, Golden Admiral, Proud New Flags, The Ice Schooner, The Final Programme, The Warlord Of The Air, Congo, The Andromeda strain, The Miko, The Ninja, Black Heart, The Excorsist, Legion, The U-Boat Wars, Heroes Of The Skies, Not Of This World, Timeless Earth, The Time Machine, War Of The Worlds, Daybreak 2250A.D., The Zero Stone, Beyond The Beyond, The Soul Of A New Machine, A Vyoge To Arcturus, Soul Rider I, The Dragons Of Eden, 1984, Side Effects, Roots, A Clockwork Orange, The Lost World, Paul McCartney: In his Own Worlds, Fantastic Voyage, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, Pebble In The Sky, The Caves Of Steel, The Naked Sun, The End Of Eternity, Nightfall And Other Stories, The Gods Themselves, Dune, Dune Messiah, Children Of Dune, God-Emporor Of Dune, The White Plague, Danse Macabre, Firestarter, Christine, Pet Semetary, Skeleton Crew, Different Seasons, Thinner, Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers, The Return Of The King, Vixen 03, Raise The Titanic, Deep Six, Pacific Vortex, The Mediterranean Caper, Iceburg, The Tomb and Other Tales, The Lurking Fear And Other Stories, Tales Of The Othulho Mythos, The Doom That Came To Sarnath, The Lurker at The Threshhold, The Shuttered Room, The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward, Dagon, The Lost Continent, The Land That Time Forgot, The People That Time Forgot, Out Of Times abyss, The Mad King, Man Plus, The Best Of Fredrik Pohl, Starburst, Jem, Chariots Of The Gods, Voyage, Gone With The Wind, Assault On A Queen, The Caine Mutiny, Red Dragon, Alien, Close Encounters, The Delta Star, Green Fire, The Vietnam Legacy, The Okara Mask, The Von Bulow Affair, Corona, Solomon And The Queen Of Sheba, Anna and The King Of Siam, Captain Barney, Them, War Of The Worlds, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Ghost Light, V, Day Of The Dragonstar, A Canticle For Liebowitz, The Secret Adversary, Lord Johnnie, The Hepburn, The Vitamin Bible, Coma, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, The Devils Triangle, The River Witch, Little Men, Little Women, The Doomfarers Of Coromonde, Balefire, Submarine, Helter Skelter, Kon Tiki, The Greening Of America, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Follow The River, The World According To Garp, Battlefield Earth, The UFO Experience, How To Talk Dirty And Influence People, One Million Tomorrows, The Discoverers, Silent Spring, The Mind Parasites, Stained Glass, Iceberg, The Holy Bible, The Story Of Henry Tod, Robots And Empire, The Worlds Strangest Mysteries, Tarzan And The Lost Empire, Night Shift, The Black Marble, C.A.D.S., The Dead Zone, Death Is A Lonely Business, The Holcroft Covenant, The Secrets Of Harry Bright, The Third Level, The History Of Horror Films, The Rhineman Exchange, Glidepath, The Strangest Things In The World, Stranger Than Science, Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky, Imperial Express, Gateway, The songs Of Distant Earth, I Am Legend, The Plague Dogs, All My Sins Remembered, Night Probe, The Body Snatchers, The Dirty Dozen, The Godfather, A Confederacy Of Dunces, The Velvet Doublet, Kentucky Stand, Tselane, A Jungle Of Stars, The Break In The Circle, The Green Years, The Brass Bowl, Black Pearls, Carrion, Captain Blood, Lost Horizons, M.A.S.H., Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, The Deep Silence, First Strike, Alien Meetings, The Seventh Power, The Boys From Brazil, Jaws, Phoenix, The Sisters, Timescape, Syndrome, Job: A Comedy Of Justice, At Dawn We Slept, Miracle Of Midway, Return To Earth, Memoirs Of Albert Speer, Catch 22, Future Shock, Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Mandate For Change, Waging Peace, Flags Of Our Fathers, Stranger In A Strange Land, John Glenn, Time Bomb, Chernobyl, Jurassic Park, Needful Things, Misery, Ect., Ect…

Heroes:

Most everyone whom has come before me, is here presently, and shall come in the future seeing as life is both joyous and frought with toil and to be heroic in my ideal is to face the challenges your circumstances present and somehow mold them into a sentient purpose.

My parents, of course, would be listed amoung my heroes as well as my whole family and basically I stick to my opening statement that all peoples have their triumph and trial and no other is to judge whom amoungst them is of "Heroic" stature for maybe the idea is to just live and not be bothered enough to know the difference.

God Bless All The U.S. Armed Forces and the United States of America in the past, present, and future and to all the Heroes!